Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa, Democratic gains extended to the House, e.g., onetime Young Democrats National President Neal E. Smith defeated eight-term Republican Paul Cunningham, whose past pluralities had been dropping and who had lost important labor support...
...group, sighed, then breathed in deeply. "Gentlemen," he said, "I agree with Dickinson. Nor would it do if either the administration or the students learned that Professor Greg's former colleagues declined to pay him this homage. I trust that when the matter comes to a vote you will support...
...ousted cheerleaders received unanimous support from the Student Council last night in their complaints against the Undergraduate Athletic Council's action in replacing present members of the cheerleading squad with varsity athletes...
...there is more to this decision than mere dissatisfaction with the current cheerleaders' behavior and organization. Pretty clearly the Council hopes that its athlete-cheerleaders will command more support from the stands than even the most sedate and well-organized bunch of lay-cheerers. It believes that most undergraduate spectators will know by sight at least a few of the prominent athletes holding the megaphones, and will respond more eagerly to their urgings...
...Richmond: "I say to you in profound and pleading reverence that I fight to preserve the public school system." He got a whoop-and-holler ovation, but two days later, with the floor packed by late-arriving delegates from the state's more moderate north, a resolution to support massive resistance drew a 557-557 tie, and this was chalked up as a defeat. Then a "local option" plan for integration won a squeaky 515-513 victory. The next day, for the seventh time in three troubled weeks, Almond dodged reporters, canceled his press conference...